OLD WOMAN OF DAR NUBA.
Marchand expedition. As regards the French Expedition of over 400 men under Marchand and Liotard, which started from the French Congo in 1896, with a view to penetrating into the valley of the upper Nile, it reached the Sueh River, an affluent of the Bahr el Ghazal, in the autumn of 1897, and began launching two 5-ton gunboats. See [next chapter] for results.
1898.The Dervish supremacy in the Bahr el Ghazal and regions bordering on the Upper Nile had now been greatly diminished owing to their severe defeat at Rejaf, and also owing to the necessity of reinforcing their threatened centre about Omdurman.
[181]Killed at Fasher in 1902, in revenge for the way he had treated certain members of the Royal Family of Darfur, when Emir of that province.
[182]By filling up the wells whence the garrison drew water.
[183]Captured by the Dervishes at the taking of Bara, subsequently created an Emir, surrendered at capture of Gedaref, 1898, and now living at Omdurman.
[184]Keren.
[185]Now at El Fasher.
[186]The 20th Hussars; 2nd Battn. King’s Own Scottish Borderers; 1st Battn. Welsh Regiment.
[187]Buried at Gallabat.